Showing posts with label infectious diseases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infectious diseases. Show all posts
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Thirty Years of AIDS, Open for Questions: Videochat with the White House, AIDS.GOV

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On Wednesday, June 1 at 3pm ET, join AIDS.gov in a live video chat with the White House to recognize “30 Years of AIDS”. The U.S. Surgeon G...
Thursday, May 5, 2011

Africa: Immigration Law Means Sick May Be Deported

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French doctors are worried that a proposed immigration law will stop foreigners receiving vital medical treatment. The bill, which a key co...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Time to Eliminate Dangerous Injection Practices by Clinicians : Health in 30

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By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Thanks to Laura Landro for shining light on unsafe injections in her WSJ blog , “Unsafe Injection Prac...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

GYT | Where music artists and celebrities meet to spread the word about getting tested | GYT I It's Your Sex Life

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 Know  Be a Know-it-All. Get the facts about STDs and Testing: what, why, where, how and how much. Don't stress, just test! GO »...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Big Pharma backs deal to boost flu pandemic readiness | Reuters

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Virus samples will be shared globally in exchange for vaccines produced from them under a landmark deal to improve preparedness for a flu p...
Monday, April 11, 2011

How Vaccinations Work | International Medical Council on Vaccination

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Philip F. Incao, MD In order to use vaccinations wisely, we need to understand exactly how they work. Until recently, the mechanism of ac...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Male Circumcision and Risk for HIV Transmission: Implications for the United States | Factsheets | CDC HIV/AIDS

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Several types of research have documented that male circumcision significantly reduces the risk of HIV acquisition by men during penile-v...
Friday, April 1, 2011

MRSA Protocols- Are They Being Used In Practice? | Registered Nurse Blog

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Posted: April 2nd, 2011 In Advance For NPs and PAs, a March 9, 2011 article was featured on the following study of protocols used ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Man's death tied to salmonella in Rhode Island

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An elderly man who tested positive for salmonella has died, according to Rhode Island officials investigating an outbreak of salmonella tha...
Monday, March 21, 2011

World TB Day, March 24, 2011, March 21, 2011 News Release - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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World TB Day March 24, 2011 Statement of Christine F. Sizemore, Ph.D., and Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. National Institute of Allergy a...

Education Resources, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc APIC |

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APIC works to provide information to both the general public and healthcare professionals. The brochures on this page are regularly rev...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Fast response crucial in outbreaks of food-borne illness, study finds - USATODAY.com

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Nearly three years after a nationwide salmonella outbreak that sickened about 1,500 people and claimed two lives, U.S. epidemiologists have...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Antiseptic baths 'reduce infection risk' | News | Nursing Times

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Using 2% chlorhexidine gluconate cloths for the daily bathing of inpatients, instead of soap and water, reduces the risk of hospital-acquir...
Friday, February 18, 2011

C. Difficile Spreads from Hospital to Community, ACG from MedPage Today

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Clostridium difficile infection has spread from the hospital to the community but has proved manageable thus far, according to data report...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Balancing infection control with the patient experience, KevinMD.com

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by Kevin Pho, MD Hospitals have recently been stepping up their infection control procedures, in the wake of news about iatrogenic infectio...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Impact of a statewide intensive care unit quality improvement initiative on hospital mortality and length of stay: retrospective comparative analysis -- Lipitz-Snyderman et al. 342 -- bmj.com

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The US Institute of Medicine highlighted the serious problem of patient safety and importance of evidence based quality improvement initia...

Cash machines 'as dirty as toilets' - Telegraph

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Experts took swabs from the numeric key pads on a string of city centre ATMs around England which are used by thousands of shoppers every...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Why You Shouldn’t Snuggle with Your Pooch in Bed – TIME Healthland

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It isn't just dog trainers and the occasional finicky spouse who want you to keep your pets off the bed. A new report in the journal Em...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Starve a Cold, Feed a Fever? | Patient Advocate - Kitty Wilde, RN

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Do you starve a cold and feed a fever when you’re feeling under the weather? Or is it the other way around? Good news — starving is neve...
Monday, January 3, 2011

CDC - Seasonal Influenza (Flu) - Flu Activity & Surveillance

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Flu Activity & Surveillance Reports & Surveillance Methods in the United States Situation Update: Summa...